Theodore Doney McCown (1908-1969)

McCown came to the University as an undergraduate and finished his Ph. D. in anthropology in 1939; he joined the faculty in 1938 and spent his entire career in the Department. His research was an analysis of pre-modern human skeletal remains from Mt. Carmel in Palestine, conducted in collaboration with Sir Arthur Keith. Later, he focused on fossil evidence for human evolution in India.